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cover: "Something to Talk About"
news
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ELECTION 2008
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Election Notes
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Tax Assessor: Spears Pounds Maxey
Bitter race ends in landslideBY LEE NICHOLS
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HD 46: Dukes Routs Thompson
Dawnna Dukes closes out a volatile contestBY RICHARD WHITTAKER
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D.A. Race: Final Verdict Pending
BY JORDAN SMITH
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Here Come the Judges
BY JORDAN SMITH
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CD 10: Doherty Over Grant
BY WELLS DUNBAR
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March 4 Election Results
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Oh Boy! Another Campaign Season!
City of Austin, AISD, and ACC poised for another round of electionsBY WELLS DUNBAR AND RICHARD WHITTAKER
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Panel Upholds Olsen Firing, but Case Doesn't End Here
APD officer loses first round of appeal challenging his firingBY JORDAN SMITH
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Naked City
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Developing Stories
City off to promising start with Seaholm East Redevelopment DistrictBY KATHERINE GREGOR
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Reefer Madness
Convicted drug felons slated for early release this week under new crack-cocaine guidelinesBY JORDAN SMITH
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Point Austin: Democracy Rocks!
On this day, change happened from the bottom upBY MICHAEL KING
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Beside the Point
Gentlemen's agreements, single-member districts, and moreBY WELLS DUNBAR
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The Hightower Report
How to Get Young People Involved in Politics; and Monsanto Seeks to Ban the TruthBY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
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Pub Grub
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Food-o-File
Threadgill's new Old No. 1 almost done, keep Las Manitas on you food to-do list, and take advantage of Austin's Downtown wine barsBY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Event Menu
March 7-12BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Food Reviews
music
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If You Have Ghosts
The 2007-08 AMA's ghosts – past, present, and futureBY DOUG FREEMAN
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Wednesday SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Handicapping the first night of SXSW 08 -
Off the Record
The countdown to South by Southwest continues, while the Black Angels turn on and Ghostland Observatory marches onward and upwardBY AUSTIN POWELL
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SXSW Platters
screens
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Big Hair, Big Stars, and a Mechanical Bull
Previewing the 2008 Texas Film Hall of FameBY MELANIE HAUPT
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SXSW FILM
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Something to Talk About
Previewing SXSW Film 08BY KIMBERLEY JONES
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All-Around Gal
Mumblecore baby Greta Gerwig acts, writes, directs, enunciates properlyBY SPENCER PARSONS
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Nathan and David and 'Goliath'
After years of making shorts, the Zellner Brothers go bigBY JOSH ROSENBLATT
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Outsider Art
Music on the marginsBY JOSH ROSENBLATT
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Ministering to the Dead
A death row chaplain has a change of heart in At the Death House DoorBY CLAY SMITH
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Private Parts in Public Places
Bob Byington lifts the lid on Registered Sex OffenderBY SHAWN BADGLEY
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Boom and Bust in a Single-Stoplight Town
Crawford and the commander in chiefBY KIMBERLEY JONES
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Greenlight Awards Premiere at SXSW
Celebrating digital TVBY BELINDA ACOSTA
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No Telling What's What or Who's Who
Confronting, and confounding, the color line in The Order of MythsBY MARC SAVLOV
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Making More Than Ends Meet
Chasing the middle class dream in IntimidadBY SHAWN BADGLEY
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Birds of America
Austin transplant Alex Karpovsky blends fact and fiction in his funny, heady tracking of the elusive ivory-billed woodpeckerBY TODDY BURTON
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It's a Dog's Life
The Toe Tactic's existential angst and animated caninesBY YVONNE GEORGINA PUIG
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Truth or Vérité?
Celia Maysles looks her father's legacy head-on in Wild Blue YonderBY ANNE S. LEWIS
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Black Like Me ... and Me ... and Me
Elvis Mitchell discusses why there's no one African-American experienceBY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
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Frisco Bay Blues
It's a thin line between love and hate for San Francisco in Barry Jenkins' 'Medicine for Melancholy'BY SOFIA RESNICK
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The Streets of Philadelphia
Divorce pains framed against the backdrop of 'The New Year Parade'BY RAYMOND BLANTON
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The Coast of Utopia
Two frustrated actors write a script, make it geographically specific, enlist A-list talent, and make the damn thing themselves. Why does 'Humboldt County' sound familiar?BY MARC SAVLOV
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Film News
Austin Film: The SXSW CliffsNotes versionBY JOE O'CONNELL
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TV Eye
It's curtains for the Web crossover quarterlifeBY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Film Reviews
arts & culture
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Shape of Things to Come
What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Tapestry Dance Company:Getting those tap shoes re-'Soul'ed
The troupe's thrilling Souls of Our Feet program is back, with more reconstructions of classic rhythm tap routinesBY ROBERT FAIRES
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Long Center for the Performing Arts: Opening the house before it opens
The long-awaited cultural facility throws wide its doors for four days of free performances and toursBY ROBERT FAIRES
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ColdTowne: Getting Upright with the originals
Core members from cult comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade raid Austin for the first time since 2000BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two: Love and Creation
An approach to the SXSW Film FestivalBY LOUIS BLACK
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Oops!
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After a Fashion
The rumors of Stephen's debilitating automobile accident have been greatly exaggerated, but train wreck? That's another story altogether.BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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Day Trips
Texas coastal fishing piers provide the means to walk on waterBY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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Playing Through
The Ice Bats are making it work the way a sublimely half-assed Will Ferrell movie worksBY THOMAS HACKETT
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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The state (and world's toughest) dog of North Carolina is the Plott Hound, Indiana Jones' first name is Henry and more fun factsBY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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The Common Law
Can my bicycle be towed?BY LUKE ELLIS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
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Soccer Watch
Austin Aztex U-23 tryouts, and moreBY NICK BARBARO
